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Credit: ChatGPT, response to “Trivial Pursuit Card,” ChatGPT, April 22, 2026.
Trivia games are an excellent fit for educational contexts and allow the instructor to evaluate students’ acquisition of the information being taught. This type of game also tends to be relatively easy to implement in face-to-face and synchronous online environments. Use the following steps to integrate this into your course.
- Determine if this will be an individual or team game.
- Identify the categories of the questions you want to ask and draft questions for each category. You could also divide questions by cognitive level, offering questions that vary in difficulty and point value.
- Provide the students with the parameters (or instructions) of the game.
- Engage your students in the game. You can offer prizes to the winner/winning team or offer some other 'perk' (like extra credit) as an incentive to do well.
Considerations
Introduce foreign students and non-native speakers to the American games that your activity draws from, for example Jeopardy or Family Feud.